San Francisco (1850 or 1851)

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Belle Cora

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Charles Cora

Karen:

The story of Gold Rush era tycoons Belle and Charles Cora

Episode sources:

1. “The Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush” by Jo Ann Levi

2. “California Gold Rush” (History.com) 2022

3. “Good Time Girls of California: A Red-Light History of the Golden State” by Jan MacKell Collins

4. “San Francisco love story: A hooker, her gambling man and a hanging” by Gary Kamiya (San Francisco Chronicle) 2019

5. “What was Gold Rush-era S.F.’s favorite pastime? Place bets” by Gary Kamiya (San Francisco Chronicle) 2015

6. “Wicked Women” Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West” by Chris Enns

7. “A History of Mexican Americans in California” (NPS.GOV)

8. 1868–1898 The Origins of the University of California and Affiliated Colleges” (University of California San Francisco)

9. “Cheating, violence in the cards at Gold Rush’s gambling dens” by Gary Kamiya (San Francisco Chronicle) 2015

10. “Gambling in the Old West” by R.K. DeArment  (Wild West via HistoryNet) 2006

11. “After the Gold Rush” (National Geographic) 

12. “The Story of Belle Cora” (Belle Cora) 

13. “Wild Women of the West: Belle Cora” by Chris Enss (Cowgirl Magazine) 2017 

14. “Faro” (Merriam-Webster) 

15. “Inventing the city: Gender and the politics of everyday life in gold-rush San Francisco, 1848-1869” by Michelle Elizabeth Jolly (University of California) 1998

16. “Faro Card Game” (Everything South Dakota) 2019

17. “For Whom the Bell Toils” by Dr. Weirde (Found SF)

18. “California Faro Dealer Loses It… All” (Gambling History) 

19. “San Francisco Vigilance Committees of 1851 and 1856” (Encylopedia.com)

20. “Gambling in the United States: An Overview” (Encylopedia.com)

21. “History of the Knights of the Green Cloth” (Pharobank)

Georgia:

The Bradford Sweets Poisoning

Episode sources:

1. “The Halloween sweets that poisoned Bradford” by Lauren Potts (BBC News, October 30, 2023)

2. “The Wholesale Poisoning at Bradford” (The Leeds Mercury, November 6, 1858)

3. “Extraordinary and Wholesale Poisoning at Bradford (The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser, November 6, 1858)

4. “Bradford Sweets Poisoning” (Wikipedia)

5. “Dying for a Humbug: The Bradford Sweets Poisoning” by Ben Johnson (Historic UK)

6. “How Tainted Treats Led to a Halloween Tragedy in 1858” by Jenny Elliott (Atlas Obscura, October 29, 2021)

A cartoon published in Punch (London) in 1858: "The Great Lozenge-Maker" by John Leech

Steven’s Mustache by Shelby Nichols Art @shelbynicholsart

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